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node-fetch 2.6.5 vulnerability, and the version that fixes it

node-fetch 2.6.5 has 1 known vulnerability (1 rated high or critical); 2.6.7 fixes it.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “A light-weight module that brings Fetch API to node.js”

Known vulnerabilities
1
1 rated high or critical
Released
Sep 22, 2021
Latest is 3.3.2
Downloads last week
137.4K
Under 1% of node-fetch downloads
Licence
MIT
OpenSSF Scorecard
4.9/10
bitinn/node-fetch (opens in a new tab)
Pulls in
3 packages
Resolved by deps.dev

What to upgrade to

2.6.7 is the closest release with no known vulnerabilities.

  • 2.6.7Upgrade to this

    Fixes the known vulnerability. Released Jan 16, 2022.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 2.7.0

    Newest 2.x release. Released Aug 23, 2023.

    No known vulnerabilities

  • 3.3.2

    Latest release. Released Jul 25, 2023.

    No known vulnerabilities

Hand the fix to your coding agent

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Findings

Every advisory for node-fetch 2.6.5

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2022-0235 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)GHSA-r683-j2x4-v87gEPSS: top 24%

    node-fetch forwards secure headers to untrusted sites

    Fixed in 2.6.7. Published Jan 21, 2022.

Who is still on a vulnerable node-fetch

3% of last week’s 208.7M node-fetch downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly node-fetch 2.6.5, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.